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Enero 17, 2008
you know who you are
recently a friend in a powerful position screwed up and then apologized to a large group of people.
he said that there was one section of people who were more gracious than the rest with his apology: the women.
why do you think that is?, i asked.
power, he answered.
i was nodding frantically.
looks like you agree, he said.
yup, was my super fem reply.
but now that i am thinking i wish i had told him:
well, they probably have bigger fish to fry than yours.
perhaps we are no more gracious, just choosing our battles.
and what you mistook for grace, was in fact, a little more like a nice way to say: i can't be bothered with your failure; i predicted it and it is fun to be right but please just, well, nail it to the cross.
the moral of the story:
unless you're going to apologize for years of victimization and an uncompromising global power structure, don't bother.
a couple days ago one of my girlfriends with super boobs and perfect hair ( she is amazing despite these assets) wore a tight yellow tee shirt made by her coworkers to commemorate their surviving another New Student Orientation. written in tiny letters on the back was the bumpersticker advice, edited, of course, to be worn by employees of the methodist school she works for:
Jesus loves you, but i want to slap your face.
one thing i am learning in seminary is that a good, old fashioned bitch slapping session may be just as helpful to us as it is to pimps, mothers of teenagers, you know: people who deal with bitches who need to be slapped. What i mean is i suddenly know how nice it would feel to haul off and spank the five o'clock shadow off some of those clergy bastardbitches. can we make it part of the liturgy again? wasn't it part of confirmation before? somebody look that up, willya?
i think of Britany's poor dad. He called in Dr. Phil to visit Brit in the hospital and i honestly wondered how badly the giant, don't mess with texas, Dr. Phil wanted to slap that girl silly. I'll bet the one thing stopping him was the fact that there is, in fact, a muppet made in his image and muppets generally leave the slapping up to miss piggy.
just in case | By crymytinyflood | 02:13 PM
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